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Books
Mee, Bob. Poems in the Key of Aardvark. Recommended at
Long list of recommended reading for civil libertarians, who may or may not be interested in the Libertarian Party as it has been organized (?) during my lifetime.
Crafts
Is this not a beautiful quilt top? And does it not suggest a glorious knitted coverlet?
You will be able to buy the finished quilt on Etsy when it's all made up. You can order the knitted coverlet here. (Yarn colors won't match fabric colors; I like the crayon-box-bright on white effect but you can suggest other colorways--shades of white, or brown and beige, or colors on black, or flower colors on leafy green, or cloudy whites and grays on sky blue. Pink, red, and purple on orange if you want that; it's your coverlet.)
Details of the quilt, and other cute decor items to go with it:
Music
Mathias Duplessy.
Theme from "X-Men"video game. (This link opens a longish playlist, if you let it. I didn't. Too many commercials.)
Tom Petty.
Weird Al Yankovic.
Theme from "Godzilla."
Kingdom Hearts.
Parov Stelar.
Lupin the Third.
George Harrison.
Linkin Park. (Warning: these lyrics sound as if someone who was depressive would find them very depressing. I don't; they describe the speaker's feelings about a failed personal relationship of his, which is about him not me. But the song was shared by someone who was taking medication for "depression." The person dropped out of university and became a "tradwife." Pregnancy was not involved. Whether that felt to her like a cause or an effect of depression isn't clear. Depression serious enough to warrant medication is a physical disease, but it's possible that some people today are being medicated, sometimes fatally, for the variety of acedia Betty Friedan called the Problem that Has No Name.)
The Drifters.
Charles Aznavour. This is a valuable song. It expresses exactly how and why men get dumped. A man who says any of these things to any woman should be dumped immediately. (The way they speak to their exes or their mothers is the way they'll speak to their wives, or worse yet the women who've been sucked into "committed monogamous relationships" outside marriage, when the novelty wears off.)
From Watership Down. Rights are said to belong to a British rabbit rescue organization.
Elvis Costello.
Bob Dylan. (I think everyone else makes his songs sound better than he did, but he did write them.)
Aqua Velvets.
Roy Clark.
Gramatik.
Bing Crosby.
Ludovico Einaudi.
Shirley Bassey.
Elvis Costello.
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